I pay homage to the past with indifference

Crystal 2022-12-03 15:50:59

Although I have been active in the School of Sociology for 3 years, my perspective has never become macroscopic. So I never like to read stories from the perspective of class, and I really didn't see the meaning of class antagonism in this film. I thought they were talking about two women who are more like Nana in Godard's film, they are the kind of birds without souls, but then I thought about them, the birds are not indifferent, anxious, fearful, let alone angry. , Violence.

The headshot orgasm at the end of the movie did not surprise me. I guessed the ending from the shot of the owner holding the shotgun. What really troubled him was the part where the owner asked Sophie to help him find the files. Fearing to find that she has difficulty reading, Sophie deliberately hung up the phone, put aside her work, and pierced her room to adjust the entertainment program sound to a high level, to cover up the phone ring and the door ring, and pretended not to hear anything. , Pretending that nothing happened. I can't forget Sophie sitting in front of the TV with no expression on her face. She opened the curtains and looked out the window like a frightened bird. I didn't feel disgusted and even felt distressed.

The owner is very anxious, very anxious, Sophie is also very anxious, very anxious, Sophie can't find a reason to relieve the anxiety of the owner, just because she needs to relieve her anxiety first.

That is a kind of logic that I am familiar with, all the indifference and escape seem so familiar.

In fact, in the dialogue between Sophie and the owner about wearing glasses at the beginning of the movie, that kind of coolness has been reflected. From telling the truth that she didn’t want to learn to drive to lying and myopia, the owner took her to the town, but she secretly ran to buy snacks, and then went to the stall to buy a pair of glasses for herself. All the words and behaviors all depended on the language and behavior. It seems very natural, but hollow and rigid, almost insensitive.

I felt a chill on my back, just because I couldn't think of what Sophie was wrong if there was no final massacre. If Jane's behavior is perverse, her ego and violence can be seen everywhere. Sophie is obviously not a villain in the obvious sense. She is cautious and sensitive. She is always careful about what she does. She works very hard. Like most young people, she likes to eat snacks and watch TV. Even the small lies can be seen everywhere in life, trivial and ordinary. From time to time, she was blunt and unreasonable and revealed only a little clumsy simplicity. Even in the last massacre, he seemed passive and plain. Maybe we will feel disgusted when we run into a woman like Jane, but for Sophie, although it feels a bit weird like the owner's family, but it is not lost, or we feel completely scared. Fear of the inexplicable indifference in her.

If the story ends that night, Jane and Sophie will go away after watching TV, maybe it will be good. But who knows if another tragedy will happen to another person in another place?

Nana didn’t hurt others. She broke up with her boyfriend. She was in tears when she saw Joan of Arc burned to death in the cinema. She kissed the person she likes casually. She wandered around in the billiard room. She failed to enter the movie circle. Later, she turned to be a prostitute. She may be alienated and indifferent, but she is never cold and distorted. Although Nana will inevitably die in the end.

In the ninth chapter of the movie, when she talked to an old philosopher, she said, "I think we are always responsible for what we do. We are free. I raise my hand. I am responsible. I turn my head. , I have responsibility, I am not happy, I have responsibility, I smoke, I have responsibility, I close my eyes, I have responsibility, even if I forget that I have responsibility, I still have responsibility." The old man said, "Three Porthos in the Musketeer, he had never thought about it in his life. He had to put a bomb in the cellar. He lit the fuse and ran away, but suddenly he thought about how he wanted to take a foot first. Stepped on the other foot, so he stopped and couldn’t move a step. The first time he thought about it, he killed him.”

If I go back to the movie, I think this tragedy actually contained a certain fate from the beginning. . This destiny is not based on the fact that they all have murders, but is based on a free logic of "everything is feasible". In many cases, it is not that tragedy is caused by not thinking, but it is a certain kind of thought that causes tragedy.

In addition, not being responsible for the behavior is actually very easy to constitute a seemingly reasonable logic. It is enough to have one or several good reasons. If you can collage it into the chain of cause and effect at your fingertips, the logical structure of the structure will not only Natural and beautiful. Besides, everyone has his own reason, which is both sufficient and worthy of mercy.

Jane hates and hates Le Liv's family very much. She feels that these rich and middle-class people are evil people, while Sophie believes that the most important thing is to protect yourself and prevent others from discovering that you are illiterate. All their hatred and lies seem to be so well-founded, and they seem to live completely in their own world, unable to understand or accept the lives of others or other people who are different from their own class.

They live very smoothly, naturally and contentedly in their own "do whatever they want" and "do whatever they want".

Similarly, does Nana "lend her life to others" or is she too immersed in herself?

Regarding life, are we unable to control or rely on ourselves to control it too much?

Perhaps, the farther away a man is from God, the more evil he may not be, but the more he feels that he has freedom. But these inadvertent behaviors have actually exuded the breath of decay and death, and the stench is quietly permeating the soul and every corner of life.

We are always free to grieve, resent, struggle, or love, and we will one day die in our freedom. Maybe we just don't have a bird inside, maybe we've all died countless times.

At least for me, most of the time I only live in nearly three-quarters of the trivial front of the movie, and this plain freedom and seeming smoothness has been brewing a storm of evil and death until one day, suddenly we Devour annihilation.

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La Cérémonie quotes

  • Georges Lelievre: [referring, respectively, to Sophie the illiterate maid and Jeanne the nosy postal clerk] What a pair: one can't read at all, and the other reads our mail.

  • Man at Melinda's birthday party: Speaking of quotes, I have one that's less famous, but quite troubling. "There are aspects of good people I find loathsome, least of all the evil within them."

    Woman at Melinda's birthday party: My God... Who said that?

    Georges Lelievre: Nietzsche.